Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-04

with meditAtIons.
ovsr marriages bS' \ VI
The clopement ii 4 c0ni,
marriage ut midnight
OF her choico. moved
inmost soul Of d few
sand persons who reside Il rs %
ty; but this commotion s.,
comparison with tho tumpI, -
the illusion which carne sn,,s
the mind Of a rather nok,s
illusion which assumed tha ~
desire to we'd one Of the l..s's
archists now in the County 1s;s
a deatli-sentencc. ~
The latter case has aroneaa !.
nation as broad as tho normal 8
Of the local mind, the reverena .e''ls
man continues. in the Chicacc N ,s s'n'l
and has awakened an a Il
large as tho admitting circle ,s Z.
Captain Black and bis inca,. ssss
clients. With that small n,,rs
persons to whom the murder Z
policemen and the wound'.
twenty more was a venial mats. &.
wedding between a youno I'M ' \. ~. ~
leading agent in the bloody III Ivy y. y
rather nice thing, The womas Z y y!
men who had sympathy ana S.n -
for the May rioters ought 10 hri,a
ty OF blossoms for the Januarss w.
ding. There was no great ~s. ~
the death of the policemen, 49,
less wrong would there be n =. rs
Wedding. SO argues the Cspi:s
Black coterie Of mortals--a ss..a
whose code of ethics is perhs W. II
most original ever fabricafei sr.',
of an insane asylum. which. hs sa'
in the espousal of ANARCHY & z y.
tue, eliminates in asking hasr.;als
girl to marry, it being pity ~ MI
social flower to waste its sweetn Nv e
the desert air.
1t was a wonderful kindness d ~.
en- to grant to the same CITY wh;ch' 81
mitted Captain Black to live mi M Z
culcate etithics. Sheriff Matson a. I.
live to prevent the Black idea from =
coming epidemic. What would baao =
of us if to his tasks like a lawver IN
tain Black were given liberty to WAX
marriages between the anarchists 4
Jail and the foolish girls out ofitp n.
sheriff has come in as most timely * =
buke to one of the greatest absprditis.
of the age. A man Of good sense ii,
risen up to quite hedlam.
1t did seem for time as thonch Il.
marriage being conceded as cominc
some Clergyman would be found 3
take his sacred robes in carpet.saet
and, DOMINIC them in the iaii, max
two loving hearts to beat as one n
the recent runaway match aclergymap
was found who would rise at midnigbt
and for a consideration, rattle "a,
some holy words, and thus place bis ii.
flee on a level with a village squire
That this same clergyman could have
been secured for our Jail wedding there
is no reasonable doubt, for, with him
as with many other preachers, mari.
age has lost its religious element, and
like a business partnership, is mere
matter of law. This is strange phe
nomenon in the Episcopal Church, BE-
cause church which is 50 careful
about how marriage bond shall BE-
dissolved should reveal some preference
as to how it should be created. Ifmid-
night and sol tude and girlish green.
ness make Il good beginning. the man
ner of ending should be Of little mpor-
lance.
But the Spies nuptials, now only
prospective, reveal the ridiculous pass
to which marriage has come BY help Of
both law and the gospel The elergy
have helped to degrade the altar.
Some of our singers and actresses have
been married three OF four or five times
the words ..till death us do part
having nothing to do with the parting
A silly man and woman can get mar
ried in shop window, or upin .
balloon. and at any time Of night Or
day. Three or four dollars, or dollar
and a half even, will sufficiently be-
cloud the moral sense Of parson Ok
squire, and on goes the wedding with
neatness and dispatch, Our age now
completes its hideous work by asking
us to admire the orange blossoms which
a good girl proposes to wear IN the
County Jail for few moments. LIDO
daily papers have done noble duty "
expressing, instead of admiration, tneR
indignation at all concerned IN tne
affair, and especially toward those VINO
| or. ali nh fn
admonitions of common sense.
This little paper was begun with 1ns
design of suggesting that the clersy
should never take part in any clandes
tine or eccentric marriage. The c ls
gyman's rite is not the legal rite. h'
wedding possesses religious eeneIl
and if silly people run to HIM 10
married, they should be sent onwa u
toward some magistrate. some % y
Chicago pastors have done this asal
and again. They have said to RUM
ways and eccentrics: eve cannO
perform a legal ceremony; our esiI
mony must be both NOR al and iega,
and the marriage you seek contains I
religious element whatever. - :
tnese uayS Oh ueS aue" mo- 20 ...o,;;a
are no doubt glad that what cerelnc GU,
they have performed have been s ! s,a,
lied amid benedictions and HOWE J,
worthily placed. If there must p, os u \
lorn and wretched weddings le. !. y
common squire have the honor anu !, y
glittering fee, but let the clergy T.
aside until the union can DO mora
well as lcgal.-Reu- Dav'd sunny
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